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Tng 83 Spring 1979
NARROW GAUGE RAILWAY SOCIETY Serving the narrow gauge world since 1951 SECRETARY MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY R. Pearman, 34 Giffard Drive, Cove, Farnborough, Hants. TREASURER J. H. Steele, 32 Thistley Hough, Penkhull, Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 5HU. The Society was founded in 1951 to encourage interest in all forms of narrow gauge rail transport. Members interests cover every aspect of the construction, operation, history and modelling of narrow gauge railways throughout the world. Society members receive this magazine and Narrow Gauge News, a bi-monthly review of current events on the narrow gauge scene. An extensive library, locomotive records, and modelling information service are available to members. Meetings and visits are arranged by local areas based in Leeds, Leicester, London, Malvern, Stoke-on-Trent and Warrington. Annual subscription £4.50 due 1st April. THE NARROW GAUGE ISSN 0142-5587 EDITOR M. Swift, 47 Birchington Avenue, Birchencliffe, Huddersfield, HD3 3RD. ASSISTANT EDITORS R.N. Redman, A. Neale. BACK NUMBER SALES G. Holt, 22 Exton Road, Leicester, LE5 4AF. Published quarterly by the Narrow Gauge Railway Society to record the history and development of narrow gauge rail transport. Our intention is to present a balanced, well illustrated publication, and the Editor welcomes original articles, photographs and drawings for consideration. Articles should preferably be written or typed with double spacing on one side of the paper only. The Editor appreciates a stamped addressed envelope if a reply is required. A range of back numbers, and binders for eight issues are available from the address above. Copyright of all material in this magazine remains vested in the authors and publisher. -
British Engineering in the Twentieth Century.Doc Page 1 of 2 the British
British Engineering in the Twentieth Century.doc Page 1 of 2 The British Thomson Houston company was formed in 1896, though its roots date back some ten years earlier. Manufacturing in the UK started in Rugby in March 1902 with a factory of 206,000 sq. ft. The plant produced its first turbo-alternator in 1905 and in 1907 BTH engaged in a joint venture with Wolseley Motors to construct petrol-electric buses. 1909 saw the Company involved in providing electrical equipment for the first trolley buses in London. From day one, the company was connected with the manufacture of incandescent lamps. In 1911 they obtained all the GE patents for drawn-wire tungsten filaments and the Mazda trade mark. Leading up to the Second World War, BTH was heavily involved in jet engine design and when the war began it manufactured magnetos, compressors, switchgear and was involved in the development of radar. On the 1st January 1960 BTH and Metropolitan Vickers were merged into AEI (Associated Electrical Industries Limited) and the BTH and MV names were lost forever in the world of electrical engineering. The American-owned firm British Westinghouse was responsible for the formation of Metropolitan-Vickers. MV was established in 1899 and located in Trafford Park, Manchester. This was an industrial area that became the focal point of many of MV’s activities. Metrovick was particularly successful in South Africa, Australia and New Zealand and, in 1922 alone, provided £1 million worth of railway traction equipment to South Africa. The 1920s was a period of considerable development for Metrovick with technical advances in the manufacture of turbines, generators, switchgear and industrial motors. -
Export Or Die! British Diesel-Electric
BACKTRACK 22-1 2008:Layout 1 21/11/07 15:48 Page 52 ‘EXPORT OR DIE!’ BRITISH DIESE No. 138 AND MODERNISATION PART A PERSONAL ASSESSMENT OF SOME Hawthorn, Leslie’s had Forth Banks works with the Type 4s at the Vulcan Foundry, sixteen ASPECTS OF RAILWAY HISTORY expanded into Stephenson’s former Forth Street being delivered from July 1957 to the end of that BY MICHAEL RUTHERFORD premises. year and the rest in the first quarter of 1958. ABOVE: Three 1,600hp diesel-electrics were The ten Type 4s were not the first of the Pilot Further deliveries of the latter began in ordered by the Southern Railway which had a Scheme orders to be delivered. Twenty Type 1s had September and October 1959 with batches from post-war plan to dieselise non-electric routes. also been ordered from English Electric both Newton-le-Willows and Darlington, the These locomotives were not rushed out and (Nos.D8000–8019) and were built concurrently Lancashire factory also producing more Type 4s had improved engines. The first two (Nos.10201 and 10202) of 1,760hp were built at Ashford in 1950/51 whereas No.10203, built at Brighton in 1954, was held back, redesigned and fitted with the MKII engine of 2,000hp, becoming the prototype for the EE Type 4. It was captured here when new in April 1954 on a test train at Waterloo. (S. C. Townroe/Colour-Rail DE629) his year, 2008, marks the 50th anniversary of the first batch of Type 4 main line diesel- Telectrics delivered as part of the British Railways Pilot Scheme of the Modernisation Plan of 1955 and this was alluded to in the colour spread included in last month’s Backtrack. -
Jools Holland Vulcan - a Loco Comes at the Roundhouse Back to Life See Page 15
THE BARROW HILL ENGINE SHED SOCIETY MAGAZINE Summer 2014 Price £2.50 Issue 45 JOOLS HOLLAND Vulcan - a loco comes at the Roundhouse back to life See page 15 See page 10 “Barrow Hill Live!” Preview See page 11 Plus MORE photos and stories INSIDE... including Rail Ale 2014 & Roundhouse Open Days See page 9 / 10 Top: 1704 Nunlow will be visiting the Roundhouse for the first time in September and will be in action at “Barrow Hill Live!” Photo: John Hillier Bottom: The hard work of the volunteers is shown off to great effect in this shot of the newly overhauled Barrow Hill wagon. Photo: Dave Darwin OpeningOpening Shot...Shot... Vulcan hauls a passenger train service back down the Springwell Branch during the Roundhouse Open Days in June Photo: Alexa Stott CONTENTS Chairman’s Chinwag 4 Headline News & Newslines 5 - Fuelling Point - Arrivals & Departures - NewRail Testing - VSOE Pays a Visit - Colas 60 at the Roundhouse - Bradford Railway Circle Visit Events Update 9 - Rail Ale 2014 - Roundhouse Open Days - Jools Holland - “Barrow Hill Live!” The Vulcan Story 15 Dave Darwin Remembers 23 Butler Henderson Star of the Silver Screen 25 The Archives 26 The Baby Deltic Project 27 DPS Report 30 Volunteers Report 31 Money Matters 32 Volunteer Liaison Officer’s Report 34 Historical Corner 36 Naturewatch 38 On Sunday 6th April an event with a difference took place at the Roundhouse. The Chesterfield Branch FRONT COVER: Vulcan hauling passenger trains of the MG Owners Club used our large car park as a venue for a gathering of MG car owners and at the Roundhouse Open Days in June 2014, seen their friends. -
Pearce Higgins, Selwyn Archive List
NATIONAL RAILWAY MUSEUM INVENTORY NUMBER 1997-7923 SELWYN PEARCE HIGGINS ARCHIVE CONTENTS PERSONAL PAPERS 3 RAILWAY NOTES AND DIARIES 4 Main Series 4 Rough Notes 7 RESEARCH AND WORKING PAPERS 11 Research Papers 11 Working Papers 13 SOCIETIES AND PRESERVATION 16 Clubs and Societies 16 RAILWAY AND TRAMWAY PAPERS 23 Light Railways and Tramways 23 Railway Companies 24 British Railways PSH/5/2/ 24 Cheshire Lines Railway PSH/5/3/ 24 Furness Railway PSH/5/4/ 25 Great Northern Railway PSH/5/7/ 25 Great Western Railway PSH/5/8/ 25 Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway PSH/5/9/ 26 London Midland and Scottish Railway PSH/5/10/ 26 London & North Eastern Railway PSH/5/11/ 27 London & North Western Railway PSH/5/12/ 27 London and South Western Railway PSH/5/13/ 28 Midland Railway PSH/5/14/ 28 Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway PSH/5/15/ 28 Midland and South Western Junction Railway PSH/5/16 28 North Eastern Railway PSH/5/17 29 North London Railway PSH/5/18 29 North Staffordshire Railway PSH/5/19 29 Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway PSH/5/20 29 Stratford-upon-Avon and Midland Junction Railway PSH/5/21 30 Railway and General Papers 30 EARLY LOCOMOTIVES AND LOCOMOTIVES BUILDING 51 Locomotives 51 Locomotive Builders 52 Individual firms 54 Rolling Stock Builders 67 SIGNALLING AND PERMANENT WAY 68 MISCELLANEOUS NOTEBOOKS AND PAPERS 69 Notebooks 69 Papers, Files and Volumes 85 CORRESPONDENCE 87 PAPERS OF J F BRUTON, J H WALKER AND W H WRIGHT 93 EPHEMERA 96 MAPS AND PLANS 114 POSTCARDS 118 POSTERS AND NOTICES 120 TIMETABLES 123 MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS 134 INDEX 137 Original catalogue prepared by Richard Durack, Curator Archive Collections, National Railway Museum 1996. -
Longreach Power Station
Powering the West The Coming of Electric Light In 1921 the Longreach Shire Council built a power scheme were objectives of the Board. Diesel Longreach Power House Clermont power stations. house on this site to supply electricity to the generating plant was installed in 1968, 1970 Area of Supply Development and supervision of installation of the gas plant was carried out by engineers of residents of Longreach. The original plant consisted and 1971. Each of these machines had an . June 1970. the State Electricity Commission of Queensland, H. (Herbert) Horton (Chief Mechanical of two Ruston and Hornsby gas engines, fuelled by output of 750 kW, giving Longreach an Engineer), A. (Alf) West (Senior Mechanical Engineer) and P.G.B. (George) Matthews (Power two charcoal gas producers, each driving a direct installed capacity in 1971 of 2550 kW, House Engineer/Manager). current generator by a flat belt. The generators had enabling the power house to meet its Morella a combined output of 134 kW. The cost of the maximum demand of 1870 kW, and to retire The Crossley-Premier 933 hp Engine driving a 650 kW generator installed in 1960, fuelled by building, generating plant and gas producers was the gas plant. The objective of the Board to the coal-fired producers gas, was reported at the time to be the largest generation combination £21,000 ($42,000). When electricity was switched reduce generating costs was achieved by the of its type in Australia. Longreach on in December 1921 it was by far the most efficient operation of the plant and the Ilfracombe expensive project ever undertaken by the Council. -
Industrial Railways July 2019
The R.C.T.S. is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation registered with The Charities Commission Registered No. 1169995. THE RAILWAY CORRESPONDENCE AND TRAVEL SOCIETY PHOTOGRAPHIC LIST LIST 7 - INDUSTRIAL RAILWAYS JULY 2019 The R.C.T.S. is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation registered with The Charities Commission Registered No. 1169995. www.rcts.org.uk VAT REGISTERED No. 197 3433 35 R.C.T.S. PHOTOGRAPHS – ORDERING INFORMATION The Society has a collection of images dating from pre-war up to the present day. The images, which are mainly the work of late members, are arranged in in fourteen lists shown below. The full set of lists covers upwards of 46,900 images. They are : List 1A Steam locomotives (BR & Miscellaneous Companies) List 1B Steam locomotives (GWR & Constituent Companies) List 1C Steam locomotives (LMS & Constituent Companies) List 1D Steam locomotives (LNER & Constituent Companies) List 1E Steam locomotives (SR & Constituent Companies) List 2 Diesel locomotives, DMUs & Gas Turbine Locomotives List 3 Electric Locomotives, EMUs, Trams & Trolleybuses List 4 Coaching stock List 5 Rolling stock (other than coaches) List 6 Buildings & Infrastructure (including signalling) List 7 Industrial Railways List 8 Overseas Railways & Trams List 9 Miscellaneous Subjects (including Railway Coats of Arms) List 10 Reserve List (Including unidentified images) LISTS Lists may be downloaded from the website http://www.rcts.org.uk/features/archive/. PRICING AND ORDERING INFORMATION Prints and images are now produced by ZenFolio via the website. Refer to the website (http://www.rcts.org.uk/features/archive/) for current prices and information. NOTES ON THE LISTS 1. Colour photographs are identified by a ‘C’ after the reference number. -
The Schedules [Heading to Schedules Amended by No
The Schedules [Heading to Schedules amended by No. 65 of 1977 s.4.] First Schedule THIS AGREEMENT is made the 14th day of November One thousand nine hundred and seventy four BETWEEN THE HONOURABLE SIR CHARLES WALTER MICHAEL COURT O.B.E. M.L.A. Premier of the State of Western Australia acting for and on behalf of the said State and instrumentalities thereof from time to time (hereinafter called “the State”) of the first part AGNEW CLOUGH LIMITED a company incorporated under the Companies Act 1961 of the said State and having its registered office therein at 22 Mount Street Perth (hereinafter called “the Company” which expression will include the successors and assigns of the Company and unless the context otherwise requires any assignee of the Company under clause 20 hereof) of the second part and MT. DEMPSTER MINING PTY. LTD. a company incorporated under the Companies Act 1961 of the said State and having its registered office therein at 22 Mount Street Perth (hereinafter called Mt. Dempster which expression will include the successors and assigns of Mt. Dempster) of the third part. WHEREAS: (1) Pursuant to the provisions of the Wood Distillation and Charcoal Iron and Steel Industry Act 1943 the Government of the State: — (a) established and since doing so has maintained and carried on certain undertakings upon the land described in the First and Second Schedules hereto for the purpose of producing charcoal and other products by any process of wood distillation and of producing charcoal iron and steel, and (b) has carried on the business of selling or using the charcoal and other products and the charcoal iron and steel produced as aforesaid; (which undertakings and business are hereinafter collectively called “the Industry”). -
Electrical Eouipment
HIGHLIGHTS 1984 1983 HOW 1984 COMPARED WITH 1983 Sales Profit Sales Profit £m £m £m £m CONTENTS Electronic Systems and Components 1,578 200 1,409 158 Chairman's Statement 3 Telecommunications and Business Electronic Systems and Components Systems 735 94 735 87 4,5 and 6 Automation and Control 448 53 425 48 Telecommtmications and Business Systems 7 and 8 Medical Equipment 435 24 412 16 Automation and Control Power Generation 623 52 680 70 9, 10 and 11 Medical Equipment Electrical Equipment 754 50 653 52 12 Power Generation Consumer Products 279 24 264 20 13 and 14 Electrical Equipment Distribution and Trading 197 14 214 13 15, 16 and 17 Consumer Products 18 5,049 . 511 4,792 464 Distribution and Trading 19 Associated Companies 20 Total Profits made before tax 671 670 Research 21 and 22 Training 23 and 24 Average number of Employees 170,865 178,061 Their Employment Costs £ 1,584m £ 1,545m Number of Shareholders 177,267 159,984 Cost of their Dividends £ 95m £ 82m Dividend per Share 3.45p 3.00p 2 CHAIRMAN'S STATEMENT When Lord Carrington was to serve its customers, at home people we do need increasingly There is plenty of room in the I have been very glad to appointed Chairman of the or overseas, whether individuals, are those with higher skills; the world for a British manufacturing see the good response to the Company in February 1983, it corporate bodies or demand for electronic engineers industry much larger than today, Share Option Schemes we was far from his thoughts, that he governments. -
The British Overseas Railways Historical Trust Library Catalogue (2011 Provisional Edition)
THE BRITISH OVERSEAS RAILWAYS HISTORICAL TRUST LIBRARY CATALOGUE (2011 PROVISIONAL EDITION) This is an update of the first attempt at listing the books which BORHT holds. Members wishing to access the library are requested to contact Mostyn Lewis and arrange that a committee member will be at Greenwich to grant access. Books are not at present available for loan (some are allocated to a future lending library which awaits manpower for its organisation and resolution of copyright issues resulting from the EU Directive), but a photocopier is available on site. SECTION 1 – GENERAL, UK AND EUROPE Bibliographies and Archive Lists Alpin, Hugh A. Catalogue of the Lomonossoff Collections, 1988 (2009/36/14) Cottrell. Handbook of Early Railway Books 1893 (Reprint) Durrant, A.E. Index to African References in the Locomotive Magazine, Beyer, Peacock Quarterly Review, Henschel Hefte/Review, Rhodesia Railway Circle Newsletter. Cape Town: The Railway History Group. Ottley. Bibilography of British Railway History, 1965 edn and 2nd Supplement Richards, Tom. Was your Grandfather a Railwayman?, 4th edn 2002. Wildish, Gerald. International Railway Index, ver 6.0 (CD) (2009/41) Williamson, A A. Descriptive Notes and Illustrated Catalogue: Collection of Historic Railway Locomotive Drawings Presented to the Museums by the Vulcan Foundry Ltd, City of Liverpool Museums, c.1960 General The Civil Engineer at War, Vol 2 Docks and Harbours, 1948 (20102/20) Fodor’s Railways of the World New York: 1977 Great Railway Journeys of the World, (BBC 1981) 1982 edn (2007/26/52) King’s of Steam 2004 reprint of Beyer Peacock booklet of 1945. LMA Handbook, 1949 Tramways and Electric Railways in the Nineteenth Century. -
Class D16/1A Engineering and Design Overview
Class D16/1a Engineering and design overview D16/1a - major equipment… Chassis Power unit Alternators Type: British Rail Class 58 Type: English Electric 16SVT 1600hp Types: Brush BA1101A and BAA602A Date of manufacture: 1984 Date of manufacture: 1947 Date of manufacture: 1976-84 Date obtained: 2016 Date obtained: 2012 Date to be obtained: 2020 Rectifier Bogies Traction motors Type: Class 56 Type: BR Gorton to a LMS Derby design Type: Six 415hp Metro-Vickers MV146 Date of manufacture: 1976-84 Date of manufacture: 1953/54 Date of manufacture: 1953/54 Date to be obtained: 2020 Date obtained: 2018 Date obtained: 2018/9 CLASS D16/1A Type 3 Co-Co Design: LMSR(1947) / RDDC (2019) Engine: English Electric 16SVT mk1 Total b.h.p: 1600hp at 750rpm Max tractive effort: 184kN (41,400 lb) Main alternator: Brush BA1101A Transmission: Electric. Six axle hung Metropolitan Vickers MV146 traction motors. Braking: Davies and Metcalfe E70 brake system. Vacuum & air Train heating: Electric & steam Red Diamond Diesel Construction - D16/1a engineering and design overview Page 3 of 16 INTRODUCTION This document is intended to give an overview of the have been sourced. planned design of our loco, the third Class 16/1 loco, In 2019 we also took up residence in our refurbished which will be known as LMS 10000. storage and workshop facility based at Wirksworth The roots of the 10000 project go back to 2012, when on the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway. We are also very the group successfully purchased a 1947 build low pleased to have had a Mk 3 sleeper coach donated to hours Mark 1 16SVT engine, virtually identical to the our group by Porterbrook Leasing, making life a lot one originally fitted to 10000. -
IST Journal 2008 – Spring
The Institute of Science & Technology The Journal Spring 2008 The Official Journal of The Institute of Science & Technology - The Professional Body for Specialist, Technical and Managerial Staff Reverse of cover page. The Journal The Official Publication of The Institute of Science & Technology ISSN 0141-9099 CONTENTS Spring 2008 Editorial Ian Gray Ron Dow Remembered Simon Fairnie FIScT Chairman’s Annual Report John Robinson Medical Effects Make-up Julia Hyland The Evolution of Eukaryotic Cells Stephen J Gamble GEC and the Telephone Bob Estreich and Alan Gall Was I a Good Science Teacher? Kevin Fletcher Hand Soldering Eric Dawson REACH Environmental Science Ltd Agar plates Tim Sandle The Deadly Dr Freud Alan Gall New & Upgraded Members October 2007 to April 2008 Institute Officers and Structure The Journal Page 1 Spring 2008 Editorial Ian Gray The Institute now has a new name and the opportunity to enlarge its membership with other like-minded professionals. This reminds me of a recent concert I attended by the National Saxophone Choir of Great Britain, where musicians came from all over the country to demonstrate their skills and provide a delightful balance over a range of nine different saxophones, from the lowly contrabass (and tubax) to the ultra high Soprillo. They were able to play individual musical pieces relevant to their instrument, or combine with one or more of the others to provide a different focus of their interpretation of the musical score or they could combine all together to produce a very effective and powerful sound, which demanded attention from even the deafest of ears! I have to admit I did not expect too much from the evening but this group of players, who did not have much practice time because of their different addresses, made me feel that even a relatively small group of dedicated people can produce a strong message.